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Alice Paul House
APH
Organizational Information
Vision, Mission and/or Purpose of Organization
The mission of Alice Paul House is to educate, advocate and empower victims/survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, other crimes and juvenile offenders.
Contact Information
Key Leader(s)
Contact Number(s)
800.435.7249 - Hotline
724.349.5744 - Administration
724.349.4444 - Hotline
Contact Email(s)
info@alicepaulhouse.org
Web Addresses
Primary Address
Service Information
Service Area
Indiana County
Service Description
Alice Paul House has been providing services to victims/survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, other serious crimes, and juvenile offenders, for more than 40 years. We provide services to all men, women and children regardless of age, sex, ethnic background or sexual orientation. These services are provided at no cost to victims, and are confidential.
24 Hour Services: On-Call Advocacy: Our skilled advocates will assist and respond to legal, medical, and various community facilities after normal business hours, weekends, and holidays. Advocates provide information and intervention services to the victim/survivor while empowering them to make their own decisions.
Emergency Sheltering: Confidential, short-term emergency residential programming for victims/survivors. Services are available to adult victims and their children, 18 years of age and under. While in our residential program, victims/survivors meet with certified advocates to develop personalized goal plans regarding their victimization, financial literacy and empowerment programming, independent housing, financial empowerment, trauma-informed advocacy and empowerment based on survivors needs.
Legal/Medical Advocacy (APH staff do not provide legal advice): Legal Advocacy: Victim Advocates provide in-person, non-judgmental support in a legal setting. The advocates are responsible for providing the necessary information to the victims/survivors about the legal system when making critical decisions. They also ensure that the victims'/survivors' rights are upheld throughout the process and provide explanation of the legal ramifications.
Protection from Abuse Orders (PFA): The PFA order is granted from the court to provide protective "relief" to adult victims and/or children for up to three years. Advocates provide support to the victims/survivors while completing the PFA paperwork. They also ensure that the victims/survivors rights are upheld throughout the process and provide explanation of the legal ramifications.
Sexual Violence Protection Order (SVPO)/Protection from Intimidation Order (PFI): SVPO's are granted from the court to provide "relief" to adult victims/survivors and/or children for up to three years. The PFI is granted from the court to provide "relief" to minor victims/survivors with defendants 18 years of age or older, for up to three years. Advocates support the victims/survivors while filing these orders. They also ensure that the victims/survivors rights are upheld throughout and provide explanation of the legal ramifications.
Medical Advocacy: Advocates provide in-person, non-judgmental support in a medical setting. They are responsible for providing necessary information and explanation to the victims/survivors about the medical system when making critical decisions, ensuring that the victims/survivors rights are upheld throughout the process.
Victim Compensation Assistance Program: Advocates support victims/survivors and their eligible family members by providing information and assistance to ease financial burdens they may face as a result of crime.
Counseling Services: Empowerment Counseling: Trauma-informed advocates provide confidential interventions in a safe environment that are action focused and client-centered, either in a one-on-one or group setting. Counseling is available to both adult and child victims/survivors, and focuses on understanding the complexities and effects of victimization. They also assist with exploring options and ways to implement strategies to overcome obstacles. In group settings, participants build rapport and mutual respect while discussing the complexities of victimization. This gives them the opportunity to reduce isolation and become empowered.
Assessments: Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS): Multi-purpose tool developed for children’s services to support decision-making, including level of care and service planning to facilitate quality initiatives and allow for monitoring of outcomes.
Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA): Multi-purpose tool developed for adult’s services to support decision-making, including level of care and service planning to facilitate quality initiatives and allow for monitoring of outcomes.
The Family Advocacy and Support Tool (FAST): Assessment tool designed to maximize communication about the needs and strengths of families. The FAST includes ratings of the Family Together, each Caregiver, and all children and youth. Interventions in the family system can be directed at that system or to address the individual needs of family members.
Evidence-Based & Research Supported Programming: Guiding Good Choices (GGC): Five-session family skill program designed for parents and caregivers of adolescents ages 9-14. GGC specifically assists families with a history of problem behaviors, substance abuse, conflict, and management problems.
Mapping - Focused Goal Setting: Through thoughtful conversation, adults can develop a visual plan of action for progress and future plans.
Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey for Women: Twelve-session program designed to help women and girls recover from the effects of trauma in their lives.
Seeking Safety: Designed to be applicable to all age groups, genders, and target any form of trauma. SS consists of 25 different session options and can be facilitated in a group or individual setting.
Psychoeducational Batterer Intervention and Personal Growth: Six-session program that allows the individuals to learn and acquire various strengths and knowledge such as; communication, negotiation, and coping skills to use when feeling intense feelings of anger or frustration. Session topics include forms of abuse and the cycle of violence; intimidation, coercion and threats; honesty and accountability of actions; trust, respect and support; resilience and termination.
Parents in the Know: Innovative practice-based child sexual abuse prevention program that assists parents and guardians build, practice and strengthen skills to recognize, respond, and prevent child sexual abuse.
Men in the Know: Four-session child sexual abuse prevention program tailored towards men who are incarcerated to assist them in developing skills in healthy relationships, questioning behaviors and how to correctly respond should there be a disclosure or belief that violence is occurring.
Prevention Education: Education Advocates provide strategies to prevent victimization by focusing on conditions that reduce violence. Primary prevention refers to behavior change. Therefore, strategies move beyond knowledge and awareness to include opportunities for audiences to learn, practice, and adopt skills and behavior changes that create environments and cultures free from violence.
Education/Community Awareness: Education Advocates offer one time, educational/community awareness programs designed to raise an understanding of violence and victimization in our community. These programs can occur in either an academic, professional, or community setting.
Crisis Intervention Volunteer Training: Education Advocates provide an 80-hour crisis intervention training that is action focused, client-centered and trauma informed. This provides individuals with para-professional counseling skills to support victims/survivors when they are faced with crisis situations.
Keywords
Empowerment Counseling, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Crisis Intervention, Victims of Other Crimes, Victim of Juvenile Offenders
Available Hours
24-hours a day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year.
Fees/Cost for Services
All services are free and confidential and provided at no cost to the victim/survivor.
Eligibility Requirements
Any victim or significant other of domestic violence, sexual assault, other crime and victims of juvenile offenders.
Miscellaneous Information
Speaker Available
Yes
Volunteer Use
Yes
Volunteer Need
Yes
Volunteer Description
Volunteers are used to provide crisis intervention through our 24-hour crisis hotline as well as in person contact.